He [Timothy Good] says he was leaked top secret US intelligence documents from the 50s that exposed a shadowy elite of 12 high ranking military officials. The documents known as the Majestic 12 files allege that extraterrestrials have visited earth and that the US military have covered it up. ibid.
It’s an age-old question: are we alone in the universe? Some people believe aliens were here long ago, and others say there could be countless advanced civilisations just beyond our own solar system. In Search of s1e1 … Aliens, History 1978
A family in Utah claims they were abducted from the safety of their home and held prisoner aboard a UFO. Other people have also reported being captured by extraterrestrials. A man in Wyoming claims that while he was hunting he came face to face with alien beings and was forcibly taken on board their spacecraft. In Search of s3e1 … UFO Captives
But what if one day somebody spotted a blip on one of these screens: an incoming object that wasn’t from the Soviet Union, that wasn’t even from this planet? Dominic Sandbrook, Tomorrow’s Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction II: Invasion, BBC 2022
Throughout its history science fiction has preyed on our fear of invasion, from massive alien assault to the enemy within. Over time the threat has evolved to reflect the anxieties of the day, from monsters awakened by atomic weapons to paranoid nightmares about our own authorities: who knows what could be heading for us next. ibid.
The War of the Worlds: Welles’ book turns Britain’s imperial mastery on its head … He [Orson Welles] moved the story to New Jersey. ibid.
The Thing from Another World (1951): In 1951 [John W] Campbell’s supremely paranoid little tale was adapted for the cinema. ibid.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): The film owed much of its power to its extensive location footage grounding it in the humdrum ordinariness of the fictional town of Santa Mira. ibid.
‘Everyone! They’re here already! You’re next!’ ibid. terrified man, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
In 1960 Wyndham’s story was adapted for the cinema as Village of the Damned (1960) … It’s the stare that stays with you. ibid.
British television’s love affair with science fiction had begun in 1953 with the live broadcast of The Quatermass Experiment (1953). ibid.
In November 1963 the most successful science fiction series in history made its grainy black and white debut: Doctor Who. ibid.
Jurassic Park (1993): was a warning about the dangers of creating new life. ibid.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): pure H G Wells. ibid.
ET: The Extraterrestrial (1982): The story of a young boy … a kindred spirit: a lost lonely extraterrestrial … This time the aliens were the good guys. ibid.
A number of films that have used the issue of alien invasion as a metaphor for our contemporary anxieties, of our race relations, of multiculturalism and immigration. ibid.
District 9: offers a rather bleaker picture: unwanted alien settlers corralled into a government run ghetto just outside Johannesburg. ibid.
A couple driving in New Hampshire encounters a UFO and become the first alien abductees to make national headlines. For the first time on television the story of coworkers taken captive by aliens. And the secret police recordings of what happened. And leading-edge science and surgery reveal shocking evidence of extraterrestrial implants inside abductees. UFOs: The Lost Evidence s2e3: UFO Abduction
September 19th 1961 upstate New Hampshire, just south of Lancaster in the Franconia Notch. At about 10pm Betty and Barney Hill are driving home from a vacation in Niagara Falls. What they never could have imagined was that this drive would lead to one of the most famous alien abduction cases in history. ibid.
The Air Force actually confirms the UFO sightings were noted on the same night in radar reports made by two separate aviation facilities. ibid.
‘So there were two hours of missing time.’ ibid. Nick Pope
After six months of hypnosis therapy, Betty and Barney believe they’ve uncovered the truth about their close encounter. In time they accept what’s happened and move on with their lives. ibid.
Hickson & Parker: Coworkers remained conscious and able to recall their terrified experience. October 11th 1973 Pascagoula, Mississippi. It’s 6pm … It’s a clear night … ‘80-100 foot long … 8 foot tall … shaped like an oblong …’ ibid.
If this is some sort of peaceful first contact, why send twelve, why not just one? Arrival 2016 starring Amy Adams & Jeremy Renner & Forest Whistaker & Michael Stuhlbarg & Mark O’Brien & Tzi Ma & Abigail Pniowsky & Julia Scarlett Dan & Jadyn Malone & Frank Schorpion et al, director Dennis Villeneuve, news
Violence continues to spread across the US today … ibid.
The first photographs of the aliens goes viral. ibid. news
It has to do with a really rare disease and it’s unstoppable. ibid. Louise
This is where your story begins: the day they departed. ibid.
A century ago these fields were the bloody arena for the most terrible conflict in human history: in 1913 an alien invasion shook the world and hurled it into an unimaginable future ... The Land of the Vanished. Great Martian War 1913-1917, History 2013
It’s the one case that will not die. It is claimed that not only a UFO crashed, that there were dead alien bodies; it’s rumoured that perhaps one of those creatures on board did survive for a short period of time. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers, Philip Mantel reporting, History 2021
I think it was Stanton who coined the phrase The Cosmic Watergate. ibid.
‘My name is Ray Santilli. I’m the person responsible for marketing the alien autopsy footage.’ ibid.
‘There was almost a year or so before I was able to find the funding from a third party, who was prepared to take a punt.’ Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers II, Santilli
There’s nothing you can pinpoint on that film that would disqualify it. The medical instruments looked real. ibid.
‘I think that over the years it’s probably done me more harm than good.’ ibid. Santili
I knew the film was a fake but I just couldn’t prove it. ibid.
Kit Green [MD] says he was taken to the Pentagon and briefed and shown films that looked exactly the same as the Alien Autopsy film. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers III
Kevin Randle: Kevin did a cold case review just recently of the evidence and the witnesses who claimed to have seen bodies at Roswell, and he has come to the conclusion that it is not as solid as we might have imagined. Alien Autopsy: The Search for Answers IV
July 7th 1947: five year old Gerald Anderson and his family are 25 miles from Roswell, New Mexico, when they discover the unbelievable. Roswell: The Final Verdict II, Discovery 2021
‘There was a large silver disk-shaped object’ … This claim from Gerald Anderson is True. He did a UFO that had recently crash-landed. ibid.
In this case there is testimony from a second unrelated witness, civil engineer Barney Barnett … After Barnett’s death his close friend retired Air Force officer Vern Maltais comes forward with the story … It’s True. ibid.
Anderson: ‘There were four bodies, not human … four and half feet tall’ … Gerald’s Anderson’s claim of seeing extraterrestrial beings is in fact True. ibid.
A similar claim is made by Barney Barnett [by Vern Maltais] … Maltais’s statement is True. ibid.
‘Two of them were obviously dead; one of them was obviously badly injured; one of them apparently suffered no ill effects’ … Was there a live alien at Crash site 2? … False. ibid.
Frankie Rowe: True .. Her father told her that government officials suppressed the evidence of extraterrestrial beings he personally saw. ibid.
The Men in Black: 44 years later Robert Smith, the Sergeant based at the airfield, testifies about knowing one of the men in black agents leading the mission … True. They were there. There were sent by the White House. ibid.
Jesse Marcel junior: His father returned from Crash Site #1 and showed him the mysterious debris he had recovered … True. ibid.
Sergeant Frederick Benthal, Army photographer: ‘There were four bodies … I took thirty shots. It smelt funny in there’ … ibid.
Lt Walter Haunt, public information officer: testifies about the first official press release … True. The press release he submitted was based on the existence of unidentifiable debris. ibid.